[Python-Dev] recursive closures - reference leak (original) (raw)

Daniel Stutzbach daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com
Tue Dec 8 16:04:11 CET 2009


2009/12/8 Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>

Note that disabling gc does not mean that you will not have unpredictable pauses. Consider for example that if you loose a reference to a very long chain of objects, you can have arbitrarily many frees being called before anything else can happen.

That strikes me as a predictable long pause.

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